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Text from the back cover:

Magic bone scrapers, bellowing seals and dancers' footsteps, tones on a reed flute, bronze lurs which resound in ritual harmony with gong and clay drum! For the very first time we can now hear a gramophone recording of how "music" may have sounded during Scandinavian prehistory - the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age - a period of some 12,000 years. The evocative soundscapes conjured forth by music-archaeologist Cajsa Lund in this unusual, indeed unique gramophone record - based on prehistoric Scandinavian instruments - has required extensive research. The sounds of prehistory rest on solid ground. Listen and enjoy!

CAJSA LUND, who produced this recording and is responsible for its contents, research and commentaries, has her doctoral dissertation in archaeology in progress at the University of Stockholm. She is also a musician; she was formerly a bassoonist in the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and saxophonist. After obtaining a B.A. she has specialised in music-archaeology. She is one of the founders of the Music-archaeological Study Group of ICTM (the International Council for Traditional Music, a UNESCO body).

ÅKE EGEVAD, Kristianstad, Sweden, is both musician and engineer. He has reconstructed most of the instruments used for this recording and performs most of the musical examples.

GRAEME LAWSON, Cambridge, plays the lyre in this recording. He is a leading expert on early European stringed instruments, which form the subject of his Ph.D. thesis .

Booklet enclosed (32 pages) [Text in English and Swedish]. Exhaustive notes on the various musical examples and soundscapes will be found in the booklet.

Recorded March-May 1983 in Stockholm (EMI Studios), Copenhagen (the National Museum) and on the island of Gotland, Sweden (outdoors). A recording made in Lejre, Denmark, 1974 has also been used (ex. 24). [i.e. track B1]

MUSICA SVECIAE is a recorded anthology of Swedish musical history encompassing the music from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. The anthology will comprise more than 200 LP recordings consisting of a series of portraits of composers and a series representing themes or cultural settings. MUSICA SVECIAE is financed by a government grant and by each respective record company, and is administered by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.